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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9416207" data-attributes="member: 6787503">JRR Tolkien wasn't writing about Mars or Alpha Centauri. He wasn't writing about other worlds. He was writing about our world, and the LotR is full of megalithic structures like Göbekli Tepe, places like the Barrow Downs, Isengard, and the Argonath, built by the Númenóreans or their descendants. Interestingly, and to which I alluded up-thread, the dating of the building of Göbekli Tepe (9,500 BC) coincides nicely with Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis. When seen through Tolkien's lens of fantasy, Göbekli Tepe could be understood as a center built by Númenóreans in exile for the purpose of teaching agriculture and bringing civilization to the rest of the world. To me, this is what a fantasy Neolithic looks like.Yeah, I'm not sure what the distinction is. I wasn't meaning to imply what [USER=467]@Reynard[/USER] is after is not fantasy. But I think there's a sub-genre distinction to be made between neolithic fantasy and medieval fantasy.</blockquote>